Notranjska museum Postojna

The imposing building on the slope below the railway line was for many years inhabited by people in uniform. From 1929, when it was built, until Italy's capitulation, the building was used as the barracks for a crew of the Carabinieri. After the war, their uniforms were merely replaced by others – the building housed the headquarters of a Yugoslav People's Army's garrison. Owing to its historical and testimonial value regarding the recent history of Slovenia, a violent political division of the Slovenian nation, the presence and organisational structure of various armies, the building was in 2007 declared a cultural monument. It became the seat of the Notranjska Museum Postojna in 2010 and today houses a permanent exhibition on the karst. With the Museum the building acquired a brand new – cultural and peaceful – mission.